KDD’15 Chairs and Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair: Usama Fayyad (ChoozOn Corporation)

General Chairs: Longbing Cao (University of Technology, Sydney) Chengqi (University of Technology, Sydney)

Program Chairs: Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University) Geoff Webb (Monash University)

Industry and Government Track Dragos Margineantu (Boeing Research) Program Chairs: Graham Williams (Australian Taxation Office)

Industry and Government Track Rajesh Parekh (Groupon) Invited Talks Chairs: Usama Fayyad (ChoozOn Corporation)

Workshop Chairs: Johannes Fuernkranz (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers University)

Tutorial Chairs: Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University) Zhihua Zhou ()

KDD Cup Chairs: Jie Tang (Tsinghua University) Ron Bekkerman (University of Haifa) Panel Chairs: Hugh Durrant-Whyte (Nicta) Katharina Morik (Technische Universität Dortmund)

Poster Chairs: Dacheng Tao (University of Technology, Sydney) Hui Xiong (Rutgers University)

Best Paper Chairs: Jure Lescovec () Kristian Kersting (Technische Universität Dortmund)

Doctoral Dissertation Award Chair: Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University)

Innovation and Service Award Chair: Ted Senator (Leidos)

Test-of-Time Paper Award Chair: Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University)

Local Arrangements Chairs: Jinjiu Li (IDA) Shannon Cunningham (Executivevents) Guandong Xu (University of Technology, Sydney)

Student Travel Award Chairs: Wei Wang (UCLA) Xingquan Zhu (Florida Atlantic University) Jeffrey Yu (Chinese )

xxi Exhibits and Demo Chairs: Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia) Paul Beinat (University of Technology, Sydney) Yanchang Zhao (RDataMining)

Media and Publicity Chairs: Vincent Tseng (National Cheng Kung University) P.Krishna Reddy (International Institute of Information Technology) Pang-Ning Tan (Michigan State University) Warwick Graco (Australian Taxation Office)

Publications Chairs: Shou-de Lin (National Taiwan University) Xintao Wu (University of Arkansas)

Social Network Chairs: Mohak Shah (Robert Bosch LLC) Bernhard Pfahringer (The University of Waikato) Jianping Yin (National University of Defense Technology)

Sponsorship Chair: Balaji Krishnapuram (IBM)

Registration: Zhenjiang Lin (University of Technology, Sydney) Brooke Daley (Executivevents, Inc.)

Treasurer: Zhigang Zheng (University of Technology, Sydney)

Video: Jiuyong Li (University of South Australia)

Student Volunteer Chair: Jinyan Li (University of Technology, Sydney)

Webmaster: Yuming Ou (University of Technology, Sydney)

David Hazel (University of Washington)

xxii KDD’15 Research Track Senior Program Committee

Alex Jaimes (Yahoo!) Kristian Kersting (TU Dortmund) Andrew Tomkins (Google Research) Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University) Arindam Banerjee () Naoki Abe (IBM T J Watson Research Center) Aristides Gionis (Aalto University) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech) Arno Siebes,Universiteit Utrecht) Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta) Bart Goethals (University of Antwerp) Paul Bradley (MethodCare) Byron Wallace (Brown University) Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research) Charu C. Aggarwal (IBM T. J. Watson Research Peter Flach (University of Bristol) Center) Philip S. Yu (UI Chicago) Chih-Jen Lin (National Taiwan University) Prem Melville (Social Alpha) Chris Ding (University of Texas at Arlington) Qiang Yang (HKUST) Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University) Ravi Kumar (Google) Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University) Rayid Ghani (University of Chicago) Deepak Agarwal (LinkedIn) Reza Rawassizadeh (University of California- Diane Cook (Washington State University) Riverside) Dimitrios Gunopulos (National and Kapodistrian Saharon Rosset (Tel Aviv University) University of Athens) Sanjay Chawla (University of Sydney) Eamonn Keogh (UC Riverside) Shou-de Lin (National Taiwan University) Edo Liberty (Yahoo! Labs) Siegfried Nijssen (Universiteit Leiden) Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google) Sofus Macskassy (Facebook) Francesco Bonchi (Yahoo Barcelona) Srini Parthasarathy (Ohio State) George Karypis (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Stefan Wrobel (Universitaet Bonn) Hong Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins University) Hui Xiong (Rutgers) Tanya Berger-Wolf (UI Chicago) Ian Davidson (University of California-Davis) Thomas Seidl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Inderjit Dhillon (UTexas) Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research) James Bailey (University of Melbourne) Tijl de Bie (University of Bristol) Jeffrey Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers) Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University) Vishwanathan S. V. N. (UCSC) Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana- W. Bruce Croft (UMass) Champaign) Wei Wang (UC Los Angeles) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University) Wray Buntine (Monash University) Jimeng Sun (Georgia Tech) Xifeng Yan (UCSB) Johannes Fuernkranz (TU Darmstadt) Yehuda Koren (Google) Jure Leskovec (Stanford University) Yisong Yue (Caltech) Katharina Morik (TU Dortmund) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University) Kilian Weinberger (Washington University)

xxiii KDD’15 Research Track Program Committee

Bruno Abrahao (Cornell University) Henrik Bostrom (University of Stockholm) Ryan Adams (Harvard) Leon Bottou (Microsoft) Amr Ahmed (Google Research) Christos Boutsidis (Yahoo! Labs) Bilal Ahmed (Tufts) Pavel Brazdil (University of Porto) Leman Akoglu (SUNY Stony Brook) Ulf Brefeld (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Tim Althoff (Stanford) David Buttler (Lawrence Livermore National Gowtham Alturi (University of Minnesota) Laboratory) Aijun An (York University) Rajmonda Caceres (MIT Lincoln Labs) Aris Anagnostopoulos (Sapienza University of Rome) Deng Cai (Zhejiang University) Annalisa Appice (University of Bari) RUi Cai (Microsoft Research) Ira Assent (Aarhus University) Xiao Cai (abbott laboratories) Sitaram Asur (HP Labs) Toon Calders (University Libre de Bruxelles) Martin Atzmueller (Uni Kassel) Berkant Barla Cambazoglu (Yahoo! Research, Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Labs Barcelona) Barcelona) Tony Bagnall (University of East Anglia) John Canny (UC Berkeley) Senjuti Basu Roy (University of Washington Tacoma) Jian Cao (Shanghai JiaoTong University) Gustavo Batista (Universidade de Sao Paulo at Sao Longbing Cao (University of Technology Sydney) Carlos) Yunbo Cao (Microsoft Research Asia) Christian Bauckhage (Fraunhofer IAIS and University Licia Capra (University College London) of Bonn) Mark Carman (Monash University) Luca Becchetti (Sapienza University of Rome) Carlos Castillo (Qatar Computing Research Institute) Ron Bekkerman (Carmel Ventures) James Caverlee (Texas A&M University) Andrÿs Benczœr (Institute for Computer Science and Lawrence Cayton (Context Relevant) Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Soumen Chakrabarti (IITB/Google) Fabricio Benevenuto (Federal University of Minas Jeffrey Chan (University of Melbourne) Gerais) Edward Chang (HTC) Rubinstein Benjamin (University of Melbourne) Kai-Wei Chang (Univ of Illionis) Yuval Benjamini (Stanford University) Kevin Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana- Bettina Berendt (K.U. Leuven) Champaign) Michele Berlingerio (IBM Research Dublin) Duen Horng Chau (Georgia Tech) Michael Berthold (KNIME) Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame) Kanishka Bhaduri (Netflix) Bee-Chung Chen (LinkedIn) Smriti Bhagat (Facebook) Chine-Yu Chen (National Taiwan University) Jinbo Bi (University of Connecticut) Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology Albert Bifet (University of Waikato) of China) Mikhail Bilenko (Microsoft Research) Haifeng Chen (NEC Research Lab) Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven) Jianhui Chen (Yahoo!) Christian Boehm (University of Munich) Lei Chen (Hong Kong UST) Petko Bogdanov (University at Albany SUNY) Ming-Syan Chen (Academic Sinica) Klemens Bohm (Karlsruher Institut f r Technologie) Minmin Chen (Criteo Research) Daniel Boley (University of Minnesota) Shuo Chen (Cornell) Christian Borgelt (European Centre for Soft Songqing Chen (George Mason University) Computing) Wei Chen (Microsoft Research) Karsten Borgwardt (ETH Zurich) Weizhu Chen (Microsoft)

xxiv Wenlin Chen (Washington University in St. Louis) Khalid El-Arini (Facebook) Yixin Chen (Washington University in St Louis) Tapio Elomaa (Tampere University of Technology) James Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Dora Erdos (Boston University) Justin Cheng (Stanford) Stefano Ermon (Stanford) Reynold Cheng (University of Hong Kong) Alex Fabrikant (Google) Junghoo Cho (University of California, Los Angeles) Ad Feelders (Utrecht University) Peter Christen (Australian National University) Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria) Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore) Cesar Ferri (Technical University Valencia) Kun-Ta Chuang (National Cheng Kung University) Dennis Fetterly (Microsoft Research) Liu ChuanRen (Drexel University) Eibe Frank (University of Waikato) Charles Clarke () Elisa Fromont (Universite St. Etienne) Gao Cong (NanyangTechnological University) Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano) Ryohei Fujimaki (NEC Laboratories America) Bin Cui (Peking University) Benjamin C. M. Fung (McGill University) Peng Cui (Tsinghua University) Stanislav Funiak (Facebook) Boris Cule (University of Antwerp) Stephan G nnemann (Carnegie Mellon University) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (University of Calabria) Thomas Gaertner (University of Bonn) Wenyuan Dai (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab) Esther Galbrun (Boston University) Abhimanyu Das (MSR) Joao Gama (University of Porto) Barnan Das ( Corporation) Venkatesh Ganti (Citibank) Kamalika Das (NASA Ames research Centre) Bin Gao (Microsoft Research) Mahashweta Das (HP Labs) Byron Gao (Texas State University) Atish Das Sarma (EBay Research Labs) Jing Gao (University at Buffalo) Anirban Dasgupta (IIT Gandhinagar) Jake Gardner (Washington University in St. Louis) Page David (University of Wisconsin) Roman Garnett (Washington University in St. Louis) Jesse Davis (KU Leuven) Matan Gavish (Stanford University) Brian Davison (Lehigh University) Yong Ge (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Aalto University) Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University) Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University) Pierre Geurts (University of Liege) Dave DeBarr (Microsoft Research) Rumi Ghosh (Robert Bosch LLC) Dennis DeCoste (Ebay) Amol Ghoting (American Express) Krzysztof Dembczynski (University Poznan) Sean Gilpin (Google) Alex Deng (Microsoft) Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis (IBM Research Ireland) Hongbo Deng (Yahoo!) David Gleich (Purdue University) Tom Diethe (University of Bristol) Ashish Goel (Stanford) Bistra Dilkina (Georgia Tech) Sreenivas Gollapudi (Microsoft) Nan Ding (Google) Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (Max Planck Institute) Wei Ding (University of Massachusetts Boston) Amit Goyal (Yahoo!) Carlos Diuk (Facebook) Quanquan Gu (University of Virginia) Nemanja Djuric (Yahoo!) Ziyu Guan (Northwest Univ. China) Jana Doppa (Washington State University) Francesco Gullo (Yahoo Labs) Doug Downey (Northwestern University) Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft Research) Oliver Downs (Globys Inc.) Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS) Gideon Dror (Yahoo! Labs) Tias Guns (KU Leuven) Wouter Duivesteijn (TU Dortmund) Abhishek Gupta (LinkedIn Corporation) Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute) Manish Gupta (Microsoft-Bing India)

xxv Rahul Gupta (Google) Wen Jin (Simon Fraser University) Reza Haffari (Monash University) Xiaoming Jin (Tsinghua University) Patrick Haffner (AT&T Research) Ting Kai Ming (Federation University) Wilhelmiina Hamalainen (Academy of Finland) Panos Kalnis (King Abdullah University of Science Barbara Hammer (Bielefeld University) and Technology) Wook-Shin Han (POSTECH) Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam.) Yuan Hao (Google) Bhargav Kanagal (Google) Ahmed Hassan (Microsoft Research) U Kang (KAIST) Jingrui He (Arizona State University) Ramakrishnan Kannan (Georgia Tech) Qi He (LinkedIn) Murat Kantarcioglu (University of Texas at Dallas) Xiaofeng He (East China Normal University) Nikos Karampatziakis (Microsoft) Jose Hernandez-Orallo (Technical University Hisashi Kashima (Kyoto University) Valencia) Shiva Kasiviswanathan (Samsung Research America) Jake Hofman (Microsoft Research) Liran Katzir (Final Ltd. Israel) Katja Hofmann (Microsoft) Sathiya Keerthi (Microsoft) Larry Holder (Washington State University) Arijit Khan (ETH Zurich) Geoff Holmes (University of Waikato) Latifur Khan (University of Texas at Dallas) Liangjie Hong (Yahoo!) Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research) Shahriar Hossain (University of Texas El Paso) Myunghwan Kim (LinkedIn) Vagelis Hristidis (University of California, Riverside) Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Cho-Jui Hsieh (UT Austin) Dyagilev Kirill (Johns Hopkins University) Hsun-Ping Hsieh (National Taiwan University) Diego Klabjan (Northwestern University) Chun-Nan Hsu (University of California, San Diego) Ron Kohavi (Microsoft) Bing Hu (Samsung) Aleksander Kolcz (Twitter) Jun Huan (University of Kansas) Tamara Kolda (Sandia Lab) Bert Huang (Virginia Tech) Deguang Kong (Samsung Research America) Joshua Huang (Shenzhen University) Xiangnan Kong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Sheng-Jun Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics Christian Konig (Microsoft Research) and Astronautics) Kevin Korb (Monash University) Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University) Michal Kosinski (Stanford) Eyke Huellermeier (Univ. Paderborn) Nick Koudas () Cao Huiping (New Mexico State University) Stefan Kramer (University of Mainz) Seung-won Hwang (Pohang University of Science and Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich) Technology) Rui Kuang (University of Minnesota) Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University) Meelis Kull (University of Bristol) Tomoharu Iwata (NTT Communication Science Tsung-Ting Kuo (National Taiwan University) Laboratories) Matt Kusner (Washington University in St. Louis) Arun Iyer (IIT Bombay) Nicolas Lachiche (University of Strasbourg) Prateek Jain (Microsoft Research, India) Dmitry Lagun (Emory University) Mohsen Jamali (Walmart Labs) Laks Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia) Szymon Jaroszewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences) Wai Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) David Jensen (UMass Amherst) Sudarshan Lamkhede (Yahoo!) Shuiwang Ji (Old Dominion University) Theodoros Lappas (Stevens Institute of Technology) Yexi Jiang (Facebook) FirstName LastName (Organization) Bo Jin (Dalian University of Technology) Silvio Lattanzi (Google) Hongxia Jin (IBM Research) Victor Lee Ruoming Jin (Kent State University)

xxvi Sangkyun Lee (TU Dortmund) Dijun Luo (RetailMeNot, Inc.) Kristen LeFevre (Google) Jiebo Luo (Rochester University) Ronny Lempel (Outbrain) Ping Luo (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute) Roger Jie Luo (Yahoo!) Cane Wing-ki Leung (Wisers Research) Michael Lyu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Xiaoli Li (A*STAR) Emmanuel Müller (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Chengkai Li (University of Texas at Arlington) (KIT)) Cheng-Te Li (Academia Sinica) Hao Ma (Microsoft Research) Guoliang Li (USC Information Sciences Institute) Rich Maclin (University of Minnesota-Duluth) Jiuyong Li (University of South Australia) Donato Malerba (University of Bari) Juanzi Li (Tsinghua University) Hiroshi Mamitsuka (Kyoto University) Lei Li (Samsung Digital Media Solutions Lab) Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong) Lei Li (UC Berkeley) Julian McAuley (Stanford) Ming Li (Nanjing University) Geoff McLachlan (University of Queensland) Ping Li (Rugters University) Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan) Wu-Jun Li (Nanjing University) Wagner Meira Jr (Universidade Federal de Minas Xiaolin Li (Nanjing University) Gerais) Yuefeng Li (Queensland University of Technology) Weiyi Meng (Binghamton University) Yu-Feng Li (Nanjing University) Pauli Miettinen (MPI Saarbruecken) Zhenhui Li (Penn State Univ) Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research) Bangyong Liang (Google) Prasenjit Mitra (The Pennsylvania State University) Zhen Liao (Microsoft) Dunja Mladenic (Institut Jo?ef Stefan) Jefrey Lijffijt (University of Bristol) Martin Mladenov (TU Dortmund) Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University) Marie-Francine Moens (Leuven University) Hsuan-Tien Lin (National Taiwan Univ) Claire Monteleoni (George Washington University) Jessica Lin (George Mason University) Joshua Moore (Cornell) Yu-Ru Lin (University of Pittsburgh) Abdullah Mueen (University New Mexico) Charles Ling (University of Western Ontario) Mirco Nanni (KDDLab - ISTI - CNR) Nelly Litvak (University of Twente) Alexandros Nanopoulos (Catholic University of Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt) Guimei Liu (A*STAR) Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft Research) Chao Liu (Sogou) Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR) Fei Liu (Carnegie Mellon University) Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville) Huan Liu (Arizona State University) Sriraam Natarajan (University of Indiana) Nathan Nan Liu (Yahoo! Labs) Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia) Qi Liu (University of Science and Technology of China) See-Kiong Ng Wei Liu (University of Technology Sydney) Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas) Yan Liu (University of Southern California) Wilfred Ng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) David Lo (Singapore Management University) Maximilian Nickel (MIT) Hung-Yi Lo (Shih Chien University, Kaohsiung Campus) Vlad Niculae (Cornell) Bo Long (LinkedIn) Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil (NEC Laboratories America) Daniel Lowd (University of Oregon) Feiping Nie (University of Texas at Arlington) Eneldo Loza Mencia (TU Darmstadt) Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia) Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech) Mathias Niepert (University of Washington) Yue Lu (Twitter Inc) Zhongqi Lu (HKUST)

xxvii Xia Ning (Indiana University-Purdue University Sujith Ravi (Google) Indianapolis) Reza Rawassizadeh (UC Riverside) Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Chandan Reddy (Wayne State University) Zoran Obradovic (Temple University) Xiang Ren (UIUC) Brendan O'Connor (UMass Amherst) Steffen Rendle (Google) Alice Oh (KAIST) Chiara Renso (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie Peder Olsen (IBM Research) dell'Informazione) Burkay Orten (Turn Inc.) Matthias Renz (Ludwig Maximilian University of Matthew Otey (Google Inc.) Munich) Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow) Matteo Riondato (Brown University) Gerd Paass (Fraunhofer IAIS) Marko Robnik-Sikonja (University of Ljubljana) Tapio Pahikkala (University of Turku) Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Aditya Pal (IBM Research) Neal Rothleder (CreativeWorx) Themis Palpanas (Paris Descartes University) Yiye Ruan (Ohio State University) Rong Pan (Sun Yat-Sen University) Salvatore Ruggieri (University of Pisa) Spiros Papadimitriou (IBM) Avishek Saha (Yahoo Labs) Aditya Parameswaran (Stanford University) Jorg Sander (University of Alberta) Ankur Parikh (CMU) Scott Sanner (Oregon State University) Laurence Park (Univ. of Western Sydney) Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Turin) Douglass Parker (UCLA) Tamas Sarlos (Google) Michael Paul (Johns Hopkins University) Venu Satuluri (Twitter) Vladimir Pavlovic (Rutgers University) Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh University) Wen-Chih Peng (National Chiao Tung University) Ralf Schenkel (University of Passau, Germany) Francois Petitjean (Monash) Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim) Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato) Tobias Schnabel (Cornell) Joel Pfeiffer (Purdue University) Friedhelm Schwenker (University of Ulm) Dinh Phung (Deakin University) Mohak Shah (Bosch Research) Nico Piatkowski (TU Dortmund University) Dafna Shahaf (Microsoft) Ali Pinar (Sandia National Laboratories) James G. Shanahan (Independent Consultant (San Claudia Plant (Helmholtz Zentrum M nchen) Francisco)) B. Aditya Prakash (Virginia Tech) Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota) Kunal Punera (University of Texas at Austin) dou Shen (CityGrid Media) Kai Puolam?ki (Finnish Institute of Occupational Heng Shen (University of Queensland) Health) Yi-Dong Shen (Institute of Software, Chinese Buyue Qian (IBM Watson) Academy of Sciences) Tao Qin (Microsoft Research) Yu-Keng Shih (GraphSQL) Novi Quadrianto (University of Sussex) Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University) Kira Radinsky (Sales Predict) Pannaga Shivaswamy (LinkedIn) Vladan Radosavljevic (Yahoo!) Fabrizio Silvestri (Yahoo Labs) Piyush Rai (Duke University) Gyorgy Simon (University of Minnesota) Ganesh Ramakrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology Vikas Sindhwani (Google Research, NY) Bombay) Yaron Singer (Harvard) Karthik Raman (Cornell University) Ambuj Singh (UCSB) Huzefa Rangwala (George Mason University) Sameer Singh (University of Washington, Seattle) Sayan Ranu (IIT Madras) Kaushik Sinha (Wichita State University) Parisa Rashidi (University of Florida) Kevin Small (Amazon Research) S.S. Ravi (SUNY Albany) Le Song (Georgia Institute of Technology)

xxviii Shaoxu Song (Tsinghua) Charalampos (Babis) Tsourakakis (Harvard Yangqiu Song (UIUC) University) Sucheta Soundarajan (Rutgers University) Johan Ugander (Stanford) Myra Spiliopoulou (Otto-von-Guericke University Antti Ukkonen (Aalto University) Magdeburg) Jaideep Vaidya (Rutgers Business School) Eirini Spyropoulou (University of Bristol) Laurens van der Maaten (Facebook Research) Suvrit Sra (MIT) Peter van der Putten (Leiden University) Ramakrishnan Srikant (Google) Matthijs van Leeuwen (KU Leuven) Michael Steinbach (University of Minnesota) Kush Varshney (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Nick Street (The University of Iowa) Center) Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel) Sergei Vassilvitskii (Google) Karthik Subbian (Facebook) Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah) L Subramaniam (IBM Research - India) Nguyen Vinh (University of Melbourne) Torsten Suel (Polytechnic Institute of New York Michail Vlachos (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory) University) Max Vladymyrov (Yahoo!) Masashi Sugiyama (University of Tokyo) Jilles Vreeken (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University) and Saarland University) Jian-Tao Sun (Microsoft Research) Slobodan Vucetic (TempleUniversity) Yizhou Sun (Northeastern Univ) Bai Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecoms) Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University) Chi Wang (Microsoft Research) Adith Swaminathan (Cornell) Dong Wang (University of Notre Dame) Marcin Sydow (PJIIT and ICS PAS Warsaw) Fei Wang (University of Connecticut) Andrea Tagarelli (University of Calabria) Guan Wang (LinkedIn) Rikiya Takahashi (SmartNews Inc.) Haixun Wang (Google) Ichiro Takeuchi (Nagoya Institute of Technology Hongning Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana- Japan) Champaign) Partha Talukdar (CMU) Jian Wang (LinkedIn) Ah-Hwee Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Jianyong Wang (Tsinghua University) Chenhao Tan (Cornell) Ke Wang (Simon Fraser U.) Lu-An Tang (NEC Laboratories) Lidan Wang (IBM Research) Dacheng Tao (University of Technology, Sydney) Shaojun Wang (Wright State University) Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Shengrui Wang (Universit? de Sherbrooke) Shirish Tatikonda (IBM) Xiangjun Wang (Netflix) Nikolaj Tatti (Aalto University) Takashi Washio (Osaka University) Evimaria Terzi (Boston University) Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute) Alex Thomo (University of Victoria) Xu Wei (New York University) YongHong Tian (Peking University) Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Hannu Toivonen (University of Helsinki) Informatics) Katrin Tomanek (VigLink) Markus Weimer (Microsoft) Hanghang Tong (Arizona State University) Ji-Rong Wen (Renmin University of China) Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Tim Weninger (Univ. of Notre Dame) Munich/Siemens) Robert West (Stanford) Ming-Feng Tsai (National Chengchi University) Jenna Wiens (University of Michigan) Panayiotis Tsaparas (University of Ioannina) Tony Wirth (University of Melbourne) Vincent Tseng (National Cheng Kung University) Ran Wolff (Yahoo!) Grigorios Tsoumakas (Aristotle University) Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

xxix Weng-Keen Wong (Oregon State University) Nayyar Zaidi (Monash University) Junjie Wu (Beihang University) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA) Xindong Wu (University of Vermont) Xiaobo Zhang Xintao Wu (University of Arkansas) Xiaodan Zhang (Drexel University) Yinghui Wu (Washington State University) Zhenjie Zhang (ADSC) Fen Xia (Baidu) Dan Zhang (Facebook) Han Xiao (Technische Universität München) Duo Zhang (Twitter) Keli Xiao (Stony Brook University) Kun Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University) Systems) Yanghua Xiao (Fudan) Kunpeng Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago) Xu Xiaowei (University of Arkansas) Lijun Zhang (Nanjing University) Xing Xie (Microsoft Research) Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University) Jian Xu (Yahoo) Nan Zhang (George Washington University) Linli Xu (University of Science and Technology of Peng Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, China) Chinese Academy of Science) Xiaobing Xue (UMass) Rui Zhang (IBM) Takeshi Yamada (NTT Communication Science Shichao Zhang (Guangxi Normal University) Laboratories) xiang Zhang (Case Western Reserve University) Rong Yan (Facebook) Xiangliang Zhang (KAUST) De-Nian Yang (Academic Sinica) Ya Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University) Hongxia Yang (IBM Research) Yu Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University) Jaewon Yang (LinkedIn) Zhaojun Zhang (UNC) Shuang-Hong Yang (Twitter) Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University) Tao Yang (Ask.com and UCSB) Bo Zhao (LinkedIn) Jieping Ye (University of Michigan) Yuchen Zhao (AppDynamics) Mi-Yen Yeh (Academic Sinica) Zheng Zhao (SAS) En-Hsu Yen (University of Texas at Austin) Vincent W. Zheng (Advanced Digital Sciences Ainur Yessenalina (Amazon) Center) Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research) and Technology) Zijian Zheng (Bing) Xing Yi (Yahoo!) Jiayu Zhou (Samsung Research America) Zhen Yi (Georgia Institute of Technology) Mianwei Zhou (Yahoo Inc) Jie Yin (CSIRO) Wenjun Zhou (U of Tennessee) Jiangang Yu (Microsoft) Feida Zhu (Singapore Management Univ.) Hwanjo Yu (Pohang University of Science and Hengshu Zhu (Baidu Inc.) Technology) Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University) Lei Yu (Binghamton University) Qiang Zhu (LinkedIn) Xiao Yu (Google Research) xingquan Zhu (Florida Atlantic University) Yang Yu (Nanjing University) Fuzhen Zhuang (Institute of Computing Technology) Zhiguo Yu (University of Texas at Houston) Arthur Zimek (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Nicholas Jing Yuan (Microsoft Research) Muenchen) Reza Zadeh (Twitter) Albrecht Zimmermann (INSA Lyon)

xxx KDD’15 Industry & Government Track Senior Program Committee

Naoki Abe (IBM T J Watson Research Center) Anne Kao (Boeing Research & Technology) Greg Cooper (University of Pittsburgh) Prem Melville (Social Alpha Inc.) Jesse Davis (KU Leuven) Ted Senator (Leidos) Cesare Furlanello (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Tomas Singliar (Amazon.com) Rayid Ghani (University of Chicago)

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Kareem Aggour (GE Global Research) Kuang-chih Lee (Yahoo) Kamal Ali (Apple Inc.) Bangyong Liang (Google) Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Labs & UPF) Ray Lindsay (Australian Taxation Office) Rohan Baxter (Australian Taxation Office) Chen Ling (Queensland University of Technology) Michele Berlingerio (IBM Research Ireland) Lin Liu (University of South Australia) Michael Berthold (University of Konstanz) Xiaomo Liu (Thomson Reuters) Christos Boutsidis (IBM) Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester) Tilmann Bruckhaus (Intuit) Mohammad Mahdian (Google) Rui Cai (Microsoft Research) Arun Maiya (Institute for Defense Analyses) Berkant Barla Cambazoglu (Yahoo Labs) Manish Marwah (HP Labs) Longbing Cao (University of Technology Sydney) Sameep Mehta (IBM Research - India) Polo Chau (Georgia Tech) Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research) Haifeng Chen (NEC Research Lab) Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft Research) Jie Chen (University of South Australia) Richi Nayak (Queensland University of Technology) Michelandgelo D'Agostino (Civis Analytics) Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia) Brian Dalessandro (Dstillery) Kok-Leong Ong (La Trobe University) Kamalika Das (NASA Ames Research Center) Feng Pan (Apple) Denny Denny (University of Indonesia) Spiros Papadimitriou (IBM) Wei Ding (University of Massachusetts Boston) Jan Pedersen (Microsoft) Seymour Douglas (Google) Claudia Perlich (Dstillery) Eugene Dubossarsky (Presciient) Ned Porter (Census) Marcus Fontoura (Microsoft) Matthew Rattigan (Edgeflip) Ryohei Fujimaki (NEC Knowledge Discovery Karl Rexer (Rexer Analytics) Laboratories) Neal Rothleder (Orb Media) Shalini Ghosh (SRI) James Schimert (Boeing Research) Warwick Graco (Australian Taxation Office) Paulo Shakarian (Arizona State University) Lifang Gu (Australian Taxation Office) Nandita Sharma (Australian Taxation Office) Melinda Han Amy Shi-Nash (SingTel) Qi He (LinkedIn) Scott Smith (Boeing Research & Technology) Shawndra Hill (U Penn Wharton) Glenn Stone (UWS/Australia) Jianying Hu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Andrew Stranieri (Federation University) Zhexue Huang (Industry/China) Jian-Tao Sun (Microsoft) Mario Inchiosa (Microsoft) Shu Tao (IBM Research) Sergei Izrailev (Integral Ad Science) Peter Van der Putten (Pegasystems & Leiden Hongxia Jin (IBM Research) University) Warren Jin (CSIRO) Ranga Vatsavai (North Carolina State University) Vanja Josifovski (Pinterest) Michail Vlachos (IBM Research) Yun Sing Koh (University of Auckland) Taifeng Wang (Microsoft Research) Deguang Kong (Samsung Research America) Xing Xie (Microsoft Research) Christian Konig (Microsoft) Debbie Zhang (Australian Taxation Office) Georgia Koutrika (HP Labs) Bo Zhao (LinkedIn) Mohit Kumar (Flipkart) Yanchang Zhao (Australian Dept. of Immigration) Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo Labs London) Zheng Zhao (SAS) Aleksandar Lazarevic (Aetna) Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research)

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KDD’15 Research Track Additional Reviewers

Ashkan Ebadi Prithu Banerjee (IBM Research) Abon Chaudhuri (Intel) Robert Ormandi (Yahoo!) Jiafeng Hu (HKU) Hiroaki Sasaki (University of Tokyo) Akhil Arora (XRCI) Shaokun Fan Altaf Rahman (Yahoo! Labs) Mohit Sharma (University of Minnesota) Akhil Arora Silviu Maniu (The University of Hong Kong) Benjamin Shickel (UF) Sina Jafarpour (Turn Inc) Biwei Huang (Max Planck Institute) Shan Jiang (UIUC) Fang-Fei Kuo (Yahoo! Research) Shenshen Liang Shiwen Cheng (University of California, Santa Cruz) Daisuke Kimura (University of Tokyo) Song Liu (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Dong Ryeol Lee (Yahoo! Labs) Shouq Sadah Defu Lian (UESTC) Victor Sheng Degao Peng (LinkedIn Inc.) Hang Su (Tsinghua University) Alexandre V Evfimievski Tao Zou Yixiang Fang (HKU) Nhat Le Florian Yger (University of Tokyo) Teck-Hou Teng (Nanyang Technological University) Freddy Chua Yingzi Wang (Microsoft Research) Mingming Gong Wei (Chang) Chunqiu Zeng (FIU) Wen Zhong (StonyBrook University) Helena Ahonen-Myka Weixiang Shao (Univ of Illinois at Chicago) Shohei Hido (Preferred Networks) Xia Zhang (Complete Genomics) Viet Huynh (Deakin University) Fei Xie (Hefei University of Technology) Iyad Batal (General Electric Research) Jia Xu (Guangxi University) Jason Zhang (HKUST) Yuan Fang (Institute for Infocomm Research) Yi Jia (University of Kansas) Kui Yu (Simon Fraser University) Jonne Pohjankukka (University of Turku) Yin Lou (LinkedIn) Jyrki Kivinen (University of Helsinki) Yi Shen Juho Heimonen (University of Turku) Yu Cheng Yi-Yu Lai (Purdue University) Yunlong He (Yahoo! Labs) Le An Yongxin Tong (HKUST) Liaoruo Wang (Oracle) Yong Xu (HKU) Liang Tang (LinkedIn) Zhiyuan (Chen) Tang Liang Zhao Chen (HKUST) Mohiuddin Qader Zhen Yue (Yahoo! Labs) Mianwei Zhou (Yahoo Inc) Yuan Zhong (Northeastern University) Moloud Shahbazi Fanwei Zhu (Zhejiang University) Luyi Mo (HKU) Yudian Zheng (HKU) Shinichi Nakajima (TU Berlin)

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